Re: Data migration
From: "John Smith" <js@ucsd.com> > >Why not? "Mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!" ...is what Tech Support will say if anything goes wrong and you call them up, is about the best reason I can think of. >I (used to) have 1 raw partition of 1G on 2G scsi disk on solaris 2.5 when >boot disk crashed. >That was development environment so I didn't have last backup. >I just dd that partition to file on another machine (other solaris, other >DS, other disk...) >and do some hacking (I forgot what) and I was able to save ALL of data. >JS > > > >"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:907vfe$kda$1@news.xmission.com... > > > > From: jimm@burton.com > > > > > >I am going to move a 300G+ Informix database from one system to >another, > > >and due to several constraints (that I am not pleased about but must > > >deal with), I am thinking of doing a dd copy from one set of disks to > > >another. Has anyone ever done this before and survived? > > > > Don't even think about it. > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________ >_________ > > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : >http://explorer.msn.com > > > > _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
In article <908tbm$st4$1@news.xmission.com>, "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: > > From: "John Smith" <js@ucsd.com> > > > >Why not? > > "Mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!" > > ...is what Tech Support will say if anything goes wrong and you call them > up, is about the best reason I can think of. Why would they laugh? Using dd seems to be a perfectly legitimate way to move the data if it is done competently. If I have a set of disks set up so I can swing them over to another machine and bring up the instance would they laugh then? How is this different? I can understand you saying whether or not you are competent enough to use dd is not Informix Tech support's responsibility, and I will agree. But as long as your media is good and you set up your other server properly, dd will work fine and in some situations might even be appropriate. Will Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.